The Crooked House, 9780751556995
Paperback
Dark family secrets, one survivor, and a past that won’t stay buried.

The Crooked House

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  • Paperback

    416 pages

  • Release Date

    29 June 2015

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Summary

The Crooked House: A Survivor’s Dark Secret

One fateful night. One unthinkable family tragedy. One survivor. This is Alison’s story.

Alison is as close to anonymous as she can get: with no ties and a backroom job, hers is a life lived under the radar. But once Alison was someone else: once she was Esme, a teenager whose bedroom sat at the top of a remote house on a bleak estuary. A girl whose family, if not happy, exactly, was no unhappier than anyone else’s - or so…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780751556995
ISBN-10:0751556998
Author:Christobel Kent
Publisher:Little, Brown Book Group
Imprint:Sphere
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:416
Release Date:29 June 2015
Weight:280g
Dimensions:198mm x 126mm x 30mm
What They're Saying

Critics Review

An utterly compulsive psychological thriller. I loved it. - SJ Watson author of Before I Go to Sleep on THE CROOKED HOUSE

Brilliant…A spooky, gripping and affecting story. - Louise Doughty, author of APPLE TREE YARD in the Guardian

Demands to be devoured in one sitting. - Good Housekeeping

Atmospheric and eerily menacing, this cracking psychological thriller demands to be read with all the lights on. - Psychologies Magazine on The CROOKED HOUSE

Compulsive, unsettling and scary as hell. - Sunday Mirror

Echoes of Christie and du Maurier in this fine thriller - Sunday Times

About The Author

Christobel Kent

Christobel Kent was born in London and educated at Cambridge. She has lived variously in Essex, London and Italy. Her childhood included several years spent on a Thames sailing barge in Maldon, Essex with her father, stepmother, three siblings and four step-siblings. She now lives in both Cambridge and Florence with her husband and five children.

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